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Ubuntu tutorials and tips: "Install the latest: Firefox-3.6b6pre & Firefox-3.7a1 Packages. A new command in Karmic makes it easy to add a PPA repository and its key, all at once."

Linux Pro Magazine: "Good news for Google Chrome users: the latest version of the browser supports extensions, so you can extend its default functionality by installing extensions from the official extension repository."

Alan Pinstein has put together an interactive PHP shell that gives you some interesting advantages over PHP's default shell feature.

php is an interactive php shell that solves a number of painful problems with normal php shells: error handling, readline support, autocomplete, history, require support an autoload support.

You can grab the latest version from his github repository.

Experimenting with GNU/Linux: "GO language promoted by google is a new system programming language said to be expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected.

The language is still very young and there is no ready made package available for ubuntu. You can install it and try out the features from the version control repository of go."

On the Symfony blog there's a recent post showing how to integrate the framework with Doctrine 2 via the sfDoctrinePlugin:

Ghacks: "What this tool does is create a CD with all of the applications you have installed – basically a portable repository.

And, with the same tool, you can restore all of the packages on the CD – all from one convenient GUI."

IBM Developerworks: "Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) offer a number of advantages over centralized VCSs, and for Subversion users looking to explore this model, Git is a great place to start.

Using Subversion as a baseline, this first of two articles shows how to install Git, set up a remote repository, and begin using basic Git commands."

MakeTechEasier: "Have you ever feel frustrated when Mozilla releases a new build for their software (especially Firefox) and you are still stuck at the previous older version, simply because Ubuntu did not (and do not intend to) add the newer version of software packages to the repository?"

The PEAR blog has posted some handy instructions for those out there that want to get PEAR and PEAR2 checkouts working from the new Subversion repository (recently moved from CVS).

Alex on Linux "When comparing Ubuntu and CentOS packaging systems, first thing that crosses my mind is that, well, size matters.

Ubuntu has nearly 70000 packages. CentOS has around 6000."